Senior Planner, Demand Planning (Dr. Dennis Gross)

Job Summary: 

 The Senior Planner, US Demand Planning will be responsible for ensuring US demand for core and innovation products (both permanent and limited life) are aligned to US financial targets, product benchmarks, historical trends, and strategic brand priority.  Lead monthly Demand Review meetings to ensure the US commercial organization and head of S&OP are aligned and can sign-off on a region level demand prior to demand submission. This job will be supporting the brand: Dr Dennis Gross.

As this role is highly collaborative across both commercial and supply chain functions, will work closely in tight communications with the following teams, via ad-hoc and weekly/ monthly project and status reviews

- Brand Global Marketing

- US Finance

- Operations and S&OP cross-functional teams

- Domestic Sales and Marketing Teams

Primary Duties & Responsibilities: 

Responsible for an 18-month demand plan by retailer as well as building and aligning new launch forecasts to meet financial targets based on historical trends, benchmark and growth strategies.

Lead internal demand review meetings where each retailer’s demand is rolled up and reviewed vs budget and sales targets and are aligned with the brands commercial leadership team and S&OP lead’s expectations.

Accountable for monthly KPI targets including Forecast Accuracy and Forecast Bias and reviewing monthly root cause analyses to report back to the business on a monthly basis and identify corrective action.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

• Responsible for at least 2 retailers or DTC planning groups
  • Responsible for the 18M External demand planning
  • Building and aligning new launch forecasts to meet financial targets based on historical trends, benchmark and growth strategies
  • Life-cycle management including global and retailer-specific add/deletes
• Responsible for Forecast Accuracy/Bias according to KPI Targets
  • Monthly reporting and root cause analytics; developing action plans and implementing changes based on findings
• Implementing IBP Statistical Forecasting for US Portfolio
  • Historical Data cleansing
  • Implement statistical forecasting across all retailers by YE 2022
• Responsible for leading at least 2 retailer specific pre-Demand Review and Demand Review meetings and facilitating conversations between Demand Planning, sales, marketing and finance to align on the US Region Demand plan prior to the month-end submission for production execution.
• Responsible for leading US Launch Consensus meeting with key stakeholders to ensure alignment. Ensure that launches are sized according to financial targets and retail projections so that we have enough inventory at the right time to ensure a successful launch.

Working Relationships/Key Stakeholders:

• Brand Global Marketing
• Brand Product Development
• NPD & NPC teams (Supply Chain)
• Affiliate & Regional Product Marketing & Operations teams
• International Business Development teams
• Domestic Sales and Marketing teams
• S&OP team

Financial Accountability:

• E&O inventory within targets
• Initiative sizing (launch aligned with internal brand targets)
• Global service and inventory

Qualifications & Competencies: 

• College degree or equivalent related work experience in beauty industry
• 4+ years’ experience in demand planning (beauty or CPG preferred)
• Relevant S&OP, supply chain, data analysis, or other business planning experience a PLUS
• Demonstrated ability to lead meetings to drive actions and accountability across cross-functional teams. 
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex topics clearly and concisely to peers and senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt in a highly collaborative environment
• Advanced excel skills: demonstrated ability to quickly manipulate large raw data sets to produce reporting that is intuitive and easy

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